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WIf \T IS THE ANSWER?
Hdtfifing farter, referring to the “vast
disproportion of social weaknesses” of
Negroes as compared with those of whites
says, . . . the reasons (for it) certainly
do not have anything to do with race as
such,-and that the chief villains are pov¬
erty, ignorance and abnormal concentra¬
tion .ip metropolitan centers.” The South
does not admit ils responsibility for moth-
ts iiig these “villains” and is not willing
to do what it can and should do to wipe
them out or greatly lessen them. Charg¬
ing responsibility for them to white peo¬
ple, however, does not relieve Negroes of
the responsibility for doing what they can
to better conditions. We shall continue to
insist that oim responsibility in this re¬
gal'd is inescapable. We believe our zeal
and energy and patience to remedy the
situation must .qqu/ij that we have put
inter the fight to achieve first class cit¬
izenship.
It ma.v not be amiss to quote some of
the unpleasant statistics Mr. Carter uses
in showing what the “villains” mentioned
above are doing to Negroes;
“With ten per. cent of the nation’s
ponulation the Negro committed in
1050, 53 per cpr/t of the murder, 5(5
per cent of the crimes of manslaugh¬
ter. 5:; per emit of aggravated as¬
sault, .‘15 per cent of the robberies,
25 per cent vh ' t in—r r p es. 4(5 per cent
of the narcotic offenses, and 41 per
cent of the concealed weapons of-
fens.es “In Mississippi 13 AH? eight white
. . .
Iv-Tsons were plain by Negroes in
1054 (the last year of record), six
Negroes were killed by white per¬
sons, and 182 Negroes were killed by
other Negroes . . .”
“The iheuW'lwv of venereal disease
among Negroes is roughly ten times
that among white people. The ratio
of illegit incite Jjjrtjis among Negrom
to illegitimate births among whites
tw considerably higher than that.”
He cites figures from Alabama, Indi¬
ana, Kansas. Louisiana, Tennessee, Dela¬
ware and New Jersey, and the ratio of
illegitimate births among Negroes to il-
legitimate births among whites ranged
from 28.00 per cent in Delaware to 12.3 1
per cent in Kansas for Negroes and from
11.10 per cent in New Jersey to 1.10 per
cent in Louisiana for white people.
’these figures are not pleasant to print,
but they are far more unpleasant to ad¬
mit as true. However, no good purpose
would be served by trying to conceal them.
Rather, if printyrg them causes Negro
leaders to begin, hm-e and there, to do
something to correct the condition, how¬
ever small the effort, a good purpose will
have been served,
If relocation is not the answer, and we
believe ii is not; if the Negro is under
unavoidable and insurmountable pres¬
sures in the South, which is not entire¬
ly true, we believe the answer rests with
local, state and federal government, with
white people who are fair and courageous,
.>• ' , \\pliii" ... to . «ace the tact that they
con-
l Negroes; 1 . 1 111 *' al and ' v with Negroes delinquencies of
themselves
who must come to the realization of their
social derelictions and of the necessity
of doing something themselves about
them.
A RENAISSANCE AFOOT
The third annual Fine Arts Festival
was held at Savannah State College May
5-!> in which wciv featured music, drama,
art, and the modern dance. Performance
jn all these areas was of a high order.
The ottering id May 7 was especially well
presented and stimulated nostalgic holies
c?f yesteryear- — a half century ago be¬
fore the phonograph, radio and piano
player became the symbol of socio-eco¬
nomic status and cultural aspiration, even
before anybody dreamed that the parlor
S.A M.S. URGES POLIO
1NN0CULAT10N
The South Atlantic Medical So- ’
eiety is urgibg all citizens under I
40 years of age to be immunized i
against polio by June president, :i0. l)r. Clar-[ j
em c R. Gosha, an-
nounces. It is the hope that these
innoculations uill be had by nil.
The usual facilities are amdahle
and information on the procedures
may be had by consulting any phy¬
sician.
The Vi value of these immuniza-
tions lias been -proved. Dr. Gosha
stated, and if the campaign can
).e i.ne hundred per cent success¬
ful it would reflect well for the
community.
Representing the society in the
general campaign is Dr. H. M. i
Collier, Jr. i
National Advertising Representatives
Associated Publishers
31 West 46 Street
New York 36, New York
166 W. Washington St.
Chicago 2. 111.
Whaley-Slmpson Co.
6513 Hollywood Boulevard
San Francisco 5, California
Whaley-Slmpson Co.
55 New Montgomery Street
Los Angeles, California
organ would one day become outmoded.
The long reign of these instruments of
entertainment in the popular mind did
something, for instance, to the prestige
of the piano, the master musical instru¬
ment, and did something worse to the
yearnings of old-timers who wanted to
see their children aspire to become suc¬
cessors of Bach, Brahms, Beethoven,
Chopin and other musical greats. It was
wondered, even feared, at one time lest
the radio and phonograph would make
the cultural value of music, both vocal
and instrumental, a lost realization; lest
music appreciation and the desire to
achieve in the art would succumb to the
successive vogues or rag-time, jazz, swing,
rock an’ roll and the newest rage, calypso.
But the promise of artistic achieve¬
ment on the part of some 12 junior and
8 senior students of Mrs. A. C. Wright
participating in the Third Annual Fine
Arts Festival, revives our hope that music
is still regarded as having social and eco¬
nomic value and justifies our belief that
things of real value are permanent.
We do not know exactly nor entirely
what the objectives of the Fine Arts Fes¬
tival are, hut we hope one of the results
will be to attract the attention and, per¬
haps, the participation of other music
teachers in our immediate community,
at least.
We salute the director of the Fine Arts
Department and Mrs. Wright for the pres¬
entation of a fine program.
ARE (.IRES SMARTER?
Wc paid more than usual attention, for
some reason, to the honor rolls of two
of our high schools as published in our
newspapers and we were struck by the
disproportion of the number of boys to
the number of girls appearing in the rolls.
It may be nothing to marvel at. It may
be that only we are annoyed by such u
disparity. We may be attaching too much
importance to what the thing seems to
us to imply for the future.
In one school two students out of 27 on
the honor roll were boys; in the other,
10 out of 43 were boys. We do not know
why this is so. Many reasons are sug¬
gested. One is that boys have various
extra-curricular activities that claim their
attention and divide their interests. But
girls have extra-curricular activities also.
Another is that the Armed Forces take
away the boys who would qualify for the
honor roll. Still another reason given is
that boys do not make as good use of
their leisure time as girls do.
But it is not only on the honor roll
that girls seem to outdo hoys. In other
respects which hold significance for the
future boys seem to come up short.
Only one out of four students from Alfred
E. Beach to win national notice for poetry
writing was a boy. This sort of record
holds out little comfort to the poor man
who said he wished to oversleep himself
on the morning we are to wake up and
find women ruling the world. If the honor
rolls in our schools can be used as an in-
( f ox< hoys may not care whether women
w ju lu i t . the world or their community.
Whether our concern is exaggerated
makes little difference if our schools are
training grounds for efficient citizen¬
ship; if our boys and girls are to be equal¬
ly prepared to assume citizenship respon¬
sibility in a few short years hence—and
now. Being on the honor roll ought to
mean having achieved beyond the expect¬
ed average, beyond the required assign¬
ments. It ought to mean readiness to take
one’s place in meeting competition with
others who have reached honor rolls in
other schools with comparable courses and
prescriptions. It ought to signify that just
ordinary achievement is not good enough
to keep pace with front runners who are
second milers. We want our boys in there,
too. They must not leave scholarship to
the girls.
REPORT ON PRAYER
PILGRIMAGE TO BE
HEARD SUNDAY
Miss Elia J. Baker, National
Organizer of the Prayer Pil-
grimage for Freedom, will be
t! ie principal speaker for the
p ravcr pilgrimage Report Mass
MedU ng bn Sunday afternoon
c’eiiK k at tlie St . Philip Mon-
umental A.M E church. West
Hull street, Rev. W. L. Brown,
pastor.
W. W Law, local NAACP
president, said that this pro¬
gram is being held to give the
community an opportunity to
see the group that attended
the’ pilgrimage and to hear
many interesting highlights
about ttie Washington gather¬
ing.
Savannahians will remember
Miss Baker as the former na-
tionai director of branches, NAA
CP. New York City. She visited
the city severl times while in
this capacity. j
Miss Baker is executive sec- |
retary of "In Friendship.” an j
organization developed to pro- ,
vide economic assistance to
reprisals , the .
victims of in
south. She served as president j
of the New York branch. NA
ACP, and is chairman of the |
education committee. i
ministers and laymen j
Both
of the city will appear on the ‘
program. Rev. Brown will pre-
side. .
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
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'Ot/t V' l‘| 'i iii i ii r .
.MADE PLANS—horty-one lead-
ts representing churches and
the N.A A.C.P. attended a meet-
ing last week at the Bethlehem
Daptist church to make plans
for the Prayer Pilgrimage to
Washington this Friday. Rev.
Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor of
First Baptist church, Mont-
■ornery, Ala., was the main
speaker. He is one of the
Montgomery boycott leaders
who is Southern Director of the
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom.
In the photo, left to right,
first row: Richard Cummings,
Rev. L. S. Stell, Jr., president,
Steele Thrills
N. A. A. C. P.
Hearers
The 1957 membership campaign
of the Savannah Branch of the
NAACP, opened on May 10, at
Second Baptist Church, highlight¬
ed with an address bv the Rever-
end <’. K. Steele of Tallahassee, '
Fla., who is president of the Inter-
Civic Council, the group which
spearheaded the Tallahassee bus
boycott. He is also president of
the Tallahassee Branch of the
NAACP and pastor of the Bethel
Baptist Church.
Reverend Steele spoke from the
subject "The Blessings Wo Have
Received And Some of Its Con-
sequencies.” He has a style of
speaking that is forceful and
dynamic. He drives home his saii-
ent points vehemently and gives
his audience a fooling of emotion
that is constantly manifested by
the more vocal of his hearers.
The speaker began by saying
that God lias blessed us as a na-
tion and as a race. As a nation,
he said, our standard of living is
higher than that of any other na-
tion, and as a race we have been
brought out of the bonds of phv-
iieal slavery. He emphasized
“physical” slavery, he said, be-
cause we are now facing segrega-
tion which is slavery with trim-
tilings on' it.
Reminding his hearers that it
was 100 years ago this year that
Supreme Court ruled that the '
Negro had- no rights that the white
man was bound to respect and
it was in 1896 that the same j
upheld the separate but equal 1
which the South enforced with
on the “separate” and
ignored the “equal,” we have come
i long way, he said, from then to
the Mav .my.I 17 <, 1954 decision ate 1M °n when! wm ;
same court brought legal _ free-
U, the Negro. Now, he add-
it is up to the Negro to see |
to it that this legal freedom is I
fully implemented. Freedom, he; j
on, is costly and wc must he
to pay the price.
He then paid his respects to the
Uncle Toms, whom he divided into |
three classes, calling them the run-
cowards, the cringing cow-
aids and the compromising cow- i
In the classification of
cowards he included the
school teacher for whom the
NAACP fought so desperately to
equalization of salary and
enjoying the fruits of this
they were too ungrateful to
out a membership because j
they were “scared.” He added that
are to be pitied.
The compromising coward, he
said, usually belongs to what he
the upper class. They will
t(> p yoll you are “going too
that you must “slow down.”
He referred to them as the “upper
Toms” and the “Miss Tomi-
sinas.” Many of them are two-
he said , and win havt , one
mcssil g* for whites and another
f( „. N esTlM , s . For that type, he
said, we must repeat the words of
SU s when he said “Get thee be-
me satan.” For all the Uncle
he said, let us pray in our
Pilgrimage of Prayer, “Father for-
give them, they know not what
do.” As long as you preach
ut “pearly gates” and “golden
slippers” the speaker said, no-
body is going to bother you. But
as soon as you say better jobs and
Inter-denominational Ministers;
Rev. R. Richard, president,
Evangelical Ministers Union;
Rev. Abernathy, shaking hands
j with W. W. Law, state NAACP
head; Rev. J. W. Archibald,
Rev. J. C. McMillan, president,
Baptist Ministers Alliance; Rev.
R. L. Byrd, Charles Dailey,
Second row: Rev. J. H. Edge,
\ Rev. Benjamin Jones, Mrs. W.
: N. Robinson, S. J. Brown, Mrs.
B. S. Adams, Mrs. J. W. Jainer-
1 son, Sr., Rev. A. J. Hargrett,
Mrs. L. S. Stall, Jr., C. Wimberly,
Rev. c. S. Stripling
Third row; J. A. Singleton,
equal opportunities, they want to
After stressing the responsibil-
ity of America and the responsi¬
bility of the Negro, he concluded
his one hour address with the
words of the song “Are ye able,
said the Master, to be crucified
with me.”
Rev. Steele was introduced by J.
S. Delaware, chairman of the
membership committee. Rev. E. P.
QuiU ... “an> campaign , chairman, , .
i presided Ill'll.. 1 ft/ol and II II. the 111.. appeal nnn....l for r .... mem- ........
| don ^ e1 ' 8 Was Rt “ p01ftS m «de will by Rev. be made F D. as Jau- the
’
campal « n Presses.
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CHAS. PRICE ASSISTING
IN IOCAL N.A.A.C.P.
DRIVE
Charles B. Price, NAACP Field
Secretary, assigned to Georgia,
with headquarters in Atlanta, is
in the city for a period of some
ten days to coordinate the
NAACP membership and fund
raising campaign.
Over a span of two years, both
NAACP membership and branch
activity have shown a mark
crease. Mr. Price has been
signed to the state since June 1,
1955.
While in the city, he will be
working very closely with the Rev.
E. 1’. Quarterman, the pastor of
the Second Baptist Church, who is
general chairman of the local
NAACP membership and fund
raising drive.
Before becoming a part of the
NAACP field staff, Mr. Price was
dean of Floi , idil) N. & I. M. Col-
^ Amnistine £riS Flm-irl-i Z dJan and
to that he
() £ R^tler College, Tyler, Texas.
A „ ative of Apalachicola, Flor-
j d;(i p r j t . e j s a graduate of
John8on c . smith University and
holds the M . A . from Howard Uni-
vors jt y LL.B., American Exten-
SJon • Schooi 3 , . of , Law. . He „ . has done ,
additiona j study in political science
gt Jdhns Hopkins and was a Gut-
man ach „i av in Human Relations
at Boston University last Sum-
r V.
M Price is a member of Sigma
gjg maj social science honor
society, Alpha Kappa Mu, and
Alpha I hi lvlpha fraternity. He
so a Mason and is listed in
Who's Who in American Educa-
f* 011 -
MAN ASLEEP ON TRACK
BEHEADED BY TRAIN
(Continued from Page One)
tion’is being continued. Hamil-
tQn ton was was the father of three
children.
Funeral services were held
chapel of the Sidney A. Jones
Funeral Home with the Rev. W.
B Brown officiating. Inter-
merit was in Laurel Grove j
cemetery.
Besides the three children. ! I
Mattle M ae, 14. Calvin. 12. and
Naomi Hamilton. 11. the de- !
cea sed is survived by a wife, I
Mrs. Dorothy Robinson ......[ Hamil- :
father and step-mother. ,
t0 , r
Mi. and Mrs. Melvin Hamilton, j
Sr.: stepson, Edward Robinson. !
t\yo brothers. Melvin, Jr., and •
Freeman Hamilton: four sisters, |
Smith. Frances .
Mrs - Agnes Mrs.
Moffett, and Misses Lillie Mae.
and Delores Hamilton,
other relatives. i
—Photo by Flueliyn
Mrs. Maggie Marshall, J. S.
Delaware, Rev. J. B. Bates, Rev.
F. D. Jaudon, Rev. W. C. Cun¬
ningham, Rev. Kelly.
Fourth row; N. Wilson, J. J.
Martin, Arthur Ellis, Rev. D. T.
Jordon, (Atlanta/; Rev. G. R.
Conne’r, Rev. E. A. Capers, un
identified, Ezra Johnson, Rev.
George D. Walker, Rev. C. P.
Ho.; os, Rev. R. B. Brown, Rev.
A. J. Fluellen.
Mr. Law is a member of the
national executive committee of
i.he prayer pilgrimage.
j Jj a ( e For
Day Camp
(Continued from Page tmei
Of the Y. and Prof. John
Camper made a final report
the study that was
in regard to adult
' tning in this community.
committee reported on
■ taken from over 1,030 samp¬
lings taken from all sections
of the community. Dr. Collier,
chairman of the Board of Man¬
agement, commended the com¬
mittee on the fine report.
I Miss Frankie N. Golden,
chaiiman of the Youth Pro¬
gram committee of the Y, has
set May 29, as the time when
all fifty-two advisers of Y.
c i u p s will be honored at a din-
| ner at the Y. The climax of
i 'the dinner will he the showing
cf the YMCA World
film.
Millard Wheeler, Sr., has
| biemfoer bct:ome the of the 103rci Y. Century Club
j T*r. Benjamin E. Mays,
pres-
ident of Morehouse College, has
been invited to be the speaker
at the annual meeting and
banquet of the Century Club,
Wcdesday, October 16. Sidney
A . Jones, local businessman, is
president of the club,
Joseph R. Jenkins, Executive
Secretary of the Y, will attend
a meeting of the Commission
on Interracial Policies and Pro-
8'fam, Thursday, May 16, in
Philadelphia, Pa., of which he
is a member. He will also at-
tend the Tri-ennial meeting of
the Association of Secretaries
which will meet in Milwaukee,
May 19-24.
T he Serenettes of Alfred E.
Beach High School will 1
atdcu myn o.i.uui, win apocar appeal
on .. xhe y.M.C.A. In Action
picgiam Saturday, 1.00 p. m.;
over radio station WJIV.
All servicemen are invited to
the USO dance Saturday night
at the Y. Mrs. Frances John¬
son will be in charge.
DR. PERRY. NEW PREXY,
JOHNSON C. SMITH
UNIVERSITY
(Continued from Page One)
Oklahoma Academy of Science,
and is a member of the American
Chemical Society and of the Sigma
XI Honorary. Scientific Society. He
has published research studies in
the Journal of the American Chem¬
ical Society, the Journal of Or¬
ganic Chemistry, and other scien¬
tific organs. His civic activities
include membership in the Okla-
homa State .Atoms for Peace Pro-
gram, the Research Council of the
Oklahoma State Regents for High-
er Education, the Langston City
Improvement Board and the City
Planning Board,
The new president of the Pres-
byterian-affiliated university has
been the recipient of research
grants-in-aid .......... . ...___ . ., from ______ , the _____ ., Research
Covporation and the Upjohn Drug
Fom pan y . He has been a college
ron tact officer on foreign agricul-
tura ] a ff a ; rs , u. S. Department of
Agriculture, since 1950. His wife,
a graduate both of the college and
the law school at Howard Univei-
is a candidate for the Ph.D.
degree at the University of Chi-1
GA. MINISTERS WARN SOUTHERNERS ON
RACE ISSUE — NOT THINKING CLEARLY
NEW YORK, May IX—A prom-
inent Georgia minister today warn-
rd Southerners they are no longer
thinking clearly on most funda¬
mental issues because of their ex¬
treme sensitivity to the racial ques-
tion.
This sensitivity, declared the
Rev. Robert B. McNeill of Colum¬
bus, Ga., prevents Southerners
from making judgments about
fundamentals like freedom, dem¬
ocracy and justice on an absolute
standard of right and wrong be¬
cause of “the presence of a people
for whom he must always make
an exception.”
Writing in the new issue of
Look Magazine, the minister said:
“The Southerner is acutely sen¬
sitive these days. He will accuse
you of dragging in the race issue
when you honestly meant no such
implication.
“The issue is in every phase of
his life—the kind of wage scale he
will establish, to whom he will sell
LITIGATION IN COLE CASE ENDS
AS WILL IS AGREED UPON
1
over the two wills left by the late
Robert A. Cole, founder and finan-
^ier of the Chicago Metropolitan
Mutual Assurance Company, came
to an end last week in Judge Wil¬
liam J. Touhy’s circuit court, when
all parties involved agreed to ae-
cept the will dated Jan. 15, 1953
as the one to be probated.
Mrs. Mary Cole, widow of the
late insurance tycoon, her two
children, Robert Jr., and Roberta,
and two company trustees, Theo¬
dore Hawes and Att.v. Edward
Tales, were involved in the final
settlement.
eago, and is now serving as chair¬
man of the department of social
science at Langston University.
Dr. Perry will begin his duties
as President of Smith on July 1,
succeeding J. W. Seabrook, retir¬
ed head of the Fayetteville State
Teachers College, who served as
acting president since the death
of President Hardy Liston in Oc- j
tober.
ST. JOHN MASONIC
G. M. MUST PAY BACK
(Continued from Page One)
Williams, Fred D. Shaw, Andrew
Ballott, Ardie W. Carter, L. A.
McClendon, John It. McGrudcr,
members of True Square Lodge
34 and Prode of Alexandria
Lodge No. 294 of Alexandria, La.;
an affiliate and subordinate lodge
of the United Most Worshipful St.
John’s Grand Lodge.
Named as defendants, jointly
and separately responsible were
members of a board of the Grand
Lodge, Henderson W. Lewis, Rev.
A. Prince Fortner, Rev. Garfield
Robinson, Harrison Baker, E. E.
Columbus, Eddie Jones and J. H.
Baptiste of Orleans Parish; Rev.
J. M. Murphy, Rapides Parish;
Andrew Morrison, Joseph Wil-
liams, James Ellis of East Baton
Rouge parish; Steve Ellis of Avey-
dies Parish and Zeka Hicks of
Ouachita Parish.
TAPLEY, NEW HEAD
D!S1. MORTICIANS
(Continued from Page One)
"
taken . , . to the ,, state , , convention ..
regarding these illegal practi-
ces W Hh views of action by the
state board.
There was an elimination of
contestants for the oratorical
contest to be held at the state
convention and King Solomon
Smallwood, Jr., of Swainsboro
was selected to represent the
first district.
Election of officers was held
and the following were elected;
Reno Tapley, president; George j >
~ C. Williams, vice president; . j
Mrs. Frances Eraddy, Pughsley, secretary; treasu- | J
Miss Fannie
Randle rer; Robert Heard, Pughsley, reporter. chaplain; j J
The new president of the ,
district invited the next meet-
ing to Vidalia. I
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SINGLETON ELECTED
LAY COMMISSIONER
(Continued, from Page One)
and superintendent of j
the church school, and for his .
outstanding work in that de-
he v a s recently i
given Guild a citation at its by annual the M. ob- G. j \
of Presbyterian Day. j
Singleton was granted leave j
his duties as district
of Afro-American
Insurance Company to at- j
the meeting. He left via
Air Lines on Wednes-
May 15. 1
i 0 “cal branch in the early 30s and
. the only former . branch , .
is presi-
dcnt sti „ artive in thc loca! R
He haa accepted the tas k of as-
s e m bl i n g the history of thc
NAACP in this community.
T he NAACP was first organiz-
( . d here nearly forty years ago and
since that time has fostered many
programs for the betterment of the
Negro and this community. Parti¬
cularly has the branch been active
since it was re-organized under thc
leadership of the late Dr. Ralph
Mark Gilbert.
As well as being an active lead¬
er in the local NAACP, Mr. Brown
js a former prcsidcnt of the Hub
and holds office in various civic,
fraternal and religious organiza-
tions, including the YMCA and
the Mutuals. He is a retired let-
ter carrier.
_
In 1956 drivers with less than
3 months experience were in-
volved In 530 fatal accidents;
drivers with 3-6 monts experi-
ence were involved in 400 fatal
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957
his merchandise, whom he will sup-
port for public’office, where he
buys his house, what he thinks
about education, what preacher be I
will listen to how far he *
, . . w*l
go in public welfare.”
As a solution to the problem,
Rev. McNeill offered a program of
“creative contact” between ttie
races in which Negroes would have
representation on city councils,
grand juries, school boards, med¬
ical societies, ministerial associa¬
tions and other public agencies.
Such a program ,he said in Look,
would prevent the destructive con¬
tact between the races that some
fear would occur with complete
j integration.
The clergyman predicted “there
will be a breakthrough eventually”
in the race problem, for “even a
Southerner can’t hold out forever
against the irrefutable testimony
of his own experience, especially
as it is tempered with the relent-
less persuasion of the Bible.”
re¬
ceive $24,750, representing money
due her from the estate dating
from the time of Cole’s death on
July 27, 1956 and other sums.
Und “ r ‘ he J^ wil1 ’ * he cstat( ;
cons,sts of the funeral home alld
the garage for which Mrs. Cole,
Hawes and Toles are named as
trustees and executors. Mrs. Cole
is to receive $250 per week and
maintenance and education ex¬
penses for the two children.
After 13 years, the estate is to
be divided equally among Mrs. Cole
and the children.
PRAYER PILGRIMS TO
HEAR CLERGY,
CONGRESSMAN AND
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Freedom in the South will report
on conditions facing Negroes in
that region. The Rev. William H.
Borders, pastor of the famous
Wheat Street Baptist Church in
Atlanta, will tell of his experiences
in efforts to bring about integra¬
tion in the buses of that city. Join¬
ing him in reporting on the bus
integration movement in their , re¬
spective cities will be the Rev. K.’
(k Stele, leader of the movement
in Tallahassee, Fla.; and f'ev.’ "
Fred L. Shuttlesworth, of Birin-’
inghatn, who challenged transpor¬
tation segregation in his city.
There will be prayers and scrip¬
ture readings by the Right Rev¬
erend Sherman L. Greene, of At¬
lanta, senior bishop of the A. M.
E. Church; the Rev. W. H. Je'rna-
gin, president, National Baptist'
Sunday School and Baptist Train¬
ing Union; and other clcrgVnien. .bo
Music at the event will he fur¬
nished by Mahalia Jackson, the
noted gospel singer, a 700-voice
community chorus under the direc¬
tion of Warner Lawson of Howard
University, and audience hymn
singing. Prayers and scripture
readings will include a “Litany of
Freedom.”
The purpose of the Prayer Pil¬
grimage is to commemorate the
third anniversary of the Supreme
Court’s anti-segregation ruling in
the school segregation cases, call
for enactment of pending civil
rights legislation, protest recent
anti-Negro violence and terror in
the South, and pay tribute to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln.
To make the trip to the nation’s
capital, NAACP branches, church
groups, trade unions and other or¬
ganizations are arranging for
chartered planes and buses, as well
as for special trains and car pools.
APPOINTED N.A.A.C.P.
HISTORIAN
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